The Impacts of the Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in Public Colleges

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The ruling impacts a policy, but not the underlying principle of valuing diversity. I think we're going to see colleges and universities get very creative in how they recruit and admit students. Another option is to ramp up wealth or income based affirmative action which does remain legal under the latest decision. And that would provide opportunity to students regardless of their race.

Its leader is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow that its murky African operations bring. The striking down of affirmative-action university-admissions policies in America may counterintuitively spur more-progressive and more-efficient alternatives (9:56). And the reinvention (again) of a beloved Chinese sweet treat (17:08).

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